Daily Republican., 1887-11-26
VARIETk IS.

Is rapidly approaching.
Goa! Ia going up in smoke, AID th Q
price !s 10 loving scot.
AL OF the quartz mills In the vlcin.
iiy Of Calico, Cal closed dozn lately
OF account Of the rsarc.ty of cosl.
AT San Francisco there sss 200 Obi
ness hsb 4as c)Ipub cases on the calen.
dar of'Ihe United Ssates District Court
awaiting trial.
Tdere has bt en- an increase OF deser
slons fiom the army, but the commits.
stoned officers appear to ha all there.
A herd OF 1879 cattle Ia Indian Terri.
t)ry we're so frightened at the approach
ofa railroad train that they "bunched
upon each o1her," killing forty ono
head.
The pcesArcs Of mind OF West
Chester SoIaan probably saved her life
Her clotding caught Are, ard she im &,
mediately jumped into a barrel OF
water s'Anding cltse by, extinguish!El
the flames.
Poltstown has raised $1,000 toward
building silk mill, ana tho Wes,
Chester News, becoming rather en-
vious, assg: "Whst's the matter with
West Chester raising TIE money ard
tskino the project out of Pottstown's
hAnds?"
"Billy the whittier" resident OF
Mic cnigar, is new whiting model oil
Christ Church, Canterbury, Nav q q.
land, which Is to be feet IL inches
high, with yard work measuring by
feet. BILLY" 10 quoted as saying
that the model will te his masterpiece
Arxious ArkAnslw Mother-"Tom
my, is 'has q green pers!mmo you are
aa:ins?" Yes. nav" "Don't yoU
k low it aim t healthy to eat green persim.
mons cn an empty g,omsch?" II amt
calm tEte green pertimmon on az
| empty s'omac1. ate a peck OF 'em
before l tack ell this one"
By the bursting CT G water main o.
New Haven, Conn this week, deer
sewer excavation WAS undermined, and
two )aborers working there were caught
by the falling timbers and sand. Oas
OF the men would probably have been
| drowned had not workmen succeeded
in tuuneliiuC under the debris a1d
| drawing off the water
Yong Lawyer-"I earned my era
professional fee yesterday"
Yong Doctor-"Iudeedi ALLOW mt
10 c,u gratu 'a.e you. What was 1t for?'
Young lawyer II drew a convey
aucs" (it seems that h,s landlady re
mitted weeks board on condition
That he trundled the baby out for sr
sIrlrG.)
"yranklin," raid the professor, whC
was about to introduce Professor Morst
| TO the alumni Of Western college
"Franklin drew the lightning from
heaven and controlled its power Il
harm, but it WAS left to Prof Morse,
| gentlemen. tc-" puzzled to know ex
| actly Whist be should say. 1t Was lef;
to Prot. Morse, gentlemen, to-to re,
duce II to horizontal position"
The Dsnbury (Conn.) News Gays
that the people OF The village ~ great
| ly worked up about the pauity of a
young girl who lights q lantern every
night aud wsDders through The streets
with it, or else tits on the fence foI
| hours at q time and flssasa the light In
the fsce of every passsr by. II is suz'
| z =sted that perhaps she is simply 10
male D!ogeues. seeking man who, II
not necessarily honest, is a. leas5 al
| tfactive.
The Ohio State Journal bas this:
| Fourteen year5 ago, tt Ia related, Mrs.
| Iden dronp6i u bal! of butter lnlo o
| we'll at Y mia, OHIO. 1t vent to the
| bottom, iorLy feet below the surfaca.
| turned upside down and rested on D
| board, where it remained until 0ae day
| several wesss ago, when the we'll was
| cleaned aud tne butter found, On
bringing it to tho surface the colos ap-
| paayo TO be Cd perfect al on the ony
| that 1t was DROPPED into the we'll. There
was no ran cid or other offsngiva snell
| about It
A dog at Ashmont. Mass is estab.
| lishing 8 reputation Tor cordlallty oi
| manner and pure benevoienee. When-
ever q customer enters his master's shop
he advances with dignity and graveiy
puts up paw to bs shaken. Sometimes
| o stranger will not understand this
| uniqus welcome, aud then the dog Will
| look gIievsd Spd aEa Il msnifest bis
| willingness to shake hands a sing or
| incident is reported as showing that h 8
kind ness Is extended to dogs as vel! as
/ to his masters friel de and customers.
| Not long aso IL was noticed that he dis
| appeared regularly for n short time
| after dinner. His master. curious to
know the cause followed him one day
| and found that he went to place that
was covered with bones picted clean,
Near by lay dog with an injured leg
who had been provided with dinner
each day by his benevolent friend.
According to O,lsdisn journal, q
m ,ddle- aged bachelor from the North.
west, who was visiting his brother a.
Owen Sound, o short time ago, con
ce,ved the notion that he should get
married before his return. 1t ws'
necessary that the preliminary pro
ceedings should not be delay ed, and, as
he was acquainted with no one Of ths
opposite sex in tie town except his
brothers wife, he offered her a deed OF
fiftv acres Of land " she would got him
a wife BY the Saturday following hit
date OF the offer. She met with tndit
ferent success 10 her mission until Fd.
dny, when abe found q lady who was
willing to aocept matrimony on any
reasonable terms The two were intro
duoed /, each other just as the boat was
leaving for tho groom's homo. A con
sultatian was held. the pair wers mar.
ried on the spot, the Snatch maker"
was handed over the deed FOR the fifty
| ac,ea of land, and the bride and Groom